SASSARI -- The results of a study involving the Desertification Research Centre of this Sardinian city’s university show that desertification and drought can be fought by managing groundwater.

 MONTE CARLO -- Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo shall open its doors to the eleventh edition of the famous Monte-Carlo Jazz Festival, paying homage to tr

 ROME -- Giovanni Ottati, CEO of telecommunications company VueTel Italia, is the new President of the Confindustria Assafirca & Mediterraneo -- the Italian industrialists' federation, for the

 ROME -- In the wake of the three-year anniversary marked this week of the Lampedusa boat tragedy in which 366 migrants died in the Mediterranean,

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis addressed Thursday the charitable organizations working in Syria and Iraq, thanking and encouraging their activities, and renewing his urgent calls for peace in the Mi

 ROME -- The Italian Minister for Constitutional Reforms and Relations with Parliament, Maria Elena Boschi, is touring Latin America at the expense of taxpayers in order to promote the referendum c

 ROME -- Monuments destroyed by ISIS have been brought back to life in the Bel Paese, where they will be displayed in a new exhibition Oct.

 Ferrara -- The journalism festival of the weekly newspaper ‘Internazionale’, will open Friday Sept. 30 with parents of Giulio Regeni, the Italian researcher killed in Cairo Jan.

 ROME -- The Italian captial’s Casa di Goethe museum hosts an exhibition of a collection of over 40 works of art depicting the Non-Catholic Cemetery of Rome over the years on the 300^th a

 ROME -- The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta) has recently paid a productive visit to Rome to attend meetings with the Italian authorities, government sources said We

 CARTAGENA -- Pope Francis’ Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on the occasion of the official Colombian peace deal signing, made a speech and led the prayer prior to the singing, the Vat

 ROME -- The heads of the Rome-based food and agriculture agencies thanked United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his personal commitment and leadership in challenging the world to reach

 ROME -- Pope Francis declined to invite the Dalai Lama to a religious summit in Assisi, in what critics said was an attempt to curry favour with China, where delicate negotiations were under way o

 ROME -- The president of the Italian anti-corruption authority ANAC, Raffaele Cantone’s announcement that nepotism in the Bel Paese’s universities is a big contributor to the ongoing brain drain i

 ROME -- Richard Mallarby, an English Special Operation Executive secret agent during the Second World War, was only 25 when he undertook a secret

 ROME -- A new solo exhibition at MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea called ‘8 ½,’ a tribute to Federico Fellini’s eponymous film by Venezuelan artist Rodolfo Villaplana curated by Daina Maja Titonel, wil

 MILAN -- Gucci wowed the audience on the first day of Milan fashion week along with

 GENOA -- The Consortium set up and led by Ansaldo Energia, a company based in this northern Italian city, in collaboration with FATA, part of the Danieli Group, has successfully completed the cons

 BERLIN -- A collaboration agreement has been signed in Berlin between Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and Argentine Railways, railway sources said Thursday.

 TIRANA -- Scientists have called upon Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, to instigate a three-year construction freeze for hydropower plants on the Vjosa river, demanding urgent environmental asse